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Charlotte’s plan to lure bus riders back
For starters, here’s the problem the Charlotte Area Transit System faces: CATS is contending with the same nationwide decline in ridership that’s hit transit systems from the New York City…
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Washington, D.C. rapid transit system
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Waste, fraud, and abuse? Standard operating procedure in the federal government
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute laments at National Review Online about the rampant waste within federal agency budgets. In the nearly seven years since the 2009 subway crash that…
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When the government runs things, they’re safe
Almost any time there is an accident in a business, we soon hear the statists saying, “That’s just what you can expect when greedy, profit-seeking business people run things.” But…
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Taken for a ride
JLF head John Hood’s column today is on transit funding. Because it’s all about Charlotte, I’ll run it here in its entirety. RALEIGH — Critics of a just-passed Senate bill…
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Charlotte's Transit Plans Aflame
It has come to this: CATS needs a 16 percent hike in fares to close a $2m. budget hole. Oh, and the utterly pointless and for show South End trolley…
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CATS' Latest Debacle
Woooo! Where will CATS cut? is the scare-line on the Uptown paper of record’s press release on behalf of CATS’ serial fraud against local commuters and taxpayers. Half-cent sales tax…
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Maintaining mass transit
The Washington Metro system is extremely convenient except when it isn’t and last week it wasn’t. Two fires, a derailment, problems on tracks, and that doesn’t count the blackout downtown.…
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Paging Phil Dubois
Last week during the big Metro Transportation Commission dog-and-pony show last week, the one that voted to spend $1 billion more on trains, UNCC Chancellor Phil Dubois stood up to…
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Better Than a Bowling Alley
Mary Newsom says the West transit corridor should run to the airport. Fair enough. No real reason for the line go to there, but going a mile off of Wilkinson…
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Light rail and commuting
Since we’re in the headfirst slide into the light-rail brick wall in both Charlotte and Raleigh. Yet another nice stat to add to the list of realities. Number of riders…
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Re: More Light Rail
At least light rail tracks don’t function as well as homeless shelters as subways. According to a Washington Metro official, the lack of a market for rail systems is a…
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Back to Transit
SUVs, plastics and “tin cans”, but no mention of light rail? See John, if we all rode rail, we’d miss so much fun stuff. And I don’t have to back…